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Definitions
Social Class
Myth or Fact
Awareness Questions
100
Why was it so difficult to find work?
Rapid development and use of machines.
100
An attitude, action, or institutional structure that subordinates or limits a person on the basis od their socioeconomic status.
What is Classism
100
What percent of Americans are in the middle class?
70%
100
Welfare recipients are too lazy to get a job.
Myth Two thirds of Americans receiving social assistance are children who are under Five years old
100
The majority of poor people in the U.S. live in
rural areas
200
What president made the New Deal programs?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
200
A socioeconmic status determined partly by income and primarily by a cluster of attitudes, beliefs, and practices of someone not too poor to be considered dependent on others but not living in an ostentatious manner associated with being wealthy
What is the Middle Class
200
The middle class is defined as what? (Two Parts)
Family of four with income of $19,000-$78,000
200
Welfare families are small.
Fact The average size of a family receiving assistance included 2.9 children.
200
How many millionaires are there in the U.S.?
2,600,000
300
43 state passed what laws between 1909 and 1920 that helped injured workers?
Worker's compensation laws
300
The societal promotion of negative beliefs and practices that tend to portray poor, less educated, or socially unacceptable persons as deficient, inferior, and responsible for their own situation; the assumption of superiority by people or groups based on wealth, employment, education, or social standing.
What is Cultural Classism
300
What is the poverty level for a single person with two children?
$17,346
300
Welfare recipients stay on welfare forever.
Myth 75% of the recipients left welfare within five years.
300
What is percentage of the U.S. Government budget goes to welfare and Social Security?
less than 1% to welfare and 20% to Social Security
400
The Federal Government became an employer by creating what organization in 1933?
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
400
Prejudiced attitudes and behavior against others based on the perception of level of income, education, or status as inferior, demonstrated whenever someone responds by saying or doing something degrading or harmful about persons whose income, education, or social standing is looked on as unacceptable
What is Individual Classism
400
What act was passed to help children in poverty?
Economic Security Act of 1935
400
Welfare rolls are increasing.
Fact
400
How much higher is the U.S. military budget thn that of china, the world's second biggest military spender?
7 times higher
500
What organization employeed 2 million men in the 1930's?
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
500
Established laws, customs, and practices in a society that allow systematic discrimination against low-income individuals or groups to the benefit of middle- or upper-class individuals or groups
What is Institutional Classism
500
How many children were living in poverty in 2007?
15.5 million
500
As unemployment increases so does applications for assistance.
Fact
500
How many children around the world die each day from hunger-related causes?
16,000
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